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BIOCHEMISTRY
卷 44, 期 49, 页码 16284-16291出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bi051432v
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM54233] Funding Source: Medline
The 37-residue islet amyloid polypeptide (IAPP) is the major protein component of the amyloid deposits found in type-II diabetes. IAPP is stored in a relatively low pH environment in the pancreatic secretory granules prior to its release to the extracellular environment. Human IAPP contains a single histidine at position 18. Aggregation of IAPP is considerably faster at a lower pH (4.0 +/- 0.3) than at high pH (8.8 +/- 0.3), as judged by turbidity and thioflavine-T fluorescence studies. The rate of aggregation at low pH increases drastically in the presence of salt. CD experiments show that the conversion of largely unstructured monomers to beta-sheet-rich structures is faster at high pH. TEM studies show that fibrils are formed at both pH values but are more prevalent at pH 8.8 (+/- 0.3). Both the free N terminus of IAPP and His-18 will titrate over the pH range studied. An N-terminal acetylated fragment consisting of residues 8-37 of human IAPP was also studied to isolate contributions from the protonation of His-18. Previous studies have shown that this fragment forms protofibrils that are very similar to those formed by intact IAPP. The effects of varying the protonation state of His-18 in the 8-37 analogue indicate that the rate of aggregation and fibril formation is noticeably faster when His-18 is deprotonated, similar to the wild type. However, the pH-dependent effects are larger for full-length IAPP than for the disulfide-truncated, acetylated analogue. TEM studies indicate differences in the morphology of the deposits formed at high and low pH. These results are discussed in light of recent structural models of IAPP fibrils.
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